$100 Laptop May Be at Security Forefront
The $100 laptops planned for children around the world might turn out to be as revolutionary for their security measures as for their low-cost economics.
Among other things, the computers will employ the free Linux operating system, flash memory instead of a hard drive and a microprocessor that is slow by today's standards but requires minimal power.
But programmers also have been taking advantage of the start-from-scratch nature of the project to design security protocols that they hope will greatly surpass those found in mass-market computers today.
The designers are still testing their approach with outside security experts - which is widely considered wiser than keeping such matters secret. But already they believe the security setup could make it unnecessary for the laptops to have anti-virus software.
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